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As far as identification, I'm not totally sure what they are. Under the microscope they seem to have a slug like appearance and ball up when threatened like an armadillo.

What I've tried on them were bayer, coral rx, revive, prazipro, me coral dip 4x, seachem reef dip, straight iodine, interceptor, and the active ingredient from flatworm rx that i got from ebay (forget the name).... but none of those had any impact.

Thanks for the response. Sorry to hear you went through that and now I’m worried what this means for the tank. Who was the person in r2r if you don’t mind me asking?

May not have been the best idea but I took the corals out that showed signs of damage and did a fw dip in rodi. Bugs dropped off immediately and corals seem battered but are alive today with polyp extension. Not sure where these came from as I haven’t anything for 4 weeks. If the corals survive the week I’m going to take everything out and do the same in a qt tank. Rather lose some than all.

Thanks for the response. Sorry to hear you went through that and now I’m worried what this means for the tank. Who was the person in r2r if you don’t mind me asking?

May not have been the best idea but I took the corals out that showed signs of damage and did a fw dip in rodi. Bugs dropped off immediately and corals seem battered but are alive today with polyp extension. Not sure where these came from as I haven’t anything for 4 weeks. If the corals survive the week I’m going to take everything out and do the same in a qt tank. Rather lose some than all.

At least they dropped off with the rodi dip. I had thought i tried a fw dip with no signs of effect on the parasite, maybe not.

the guy who had them on r2r... let me see if i can find it. may be a while